20+ years across DoD cyber operations, enterprise IT, DevOps, and software delivery
Senior software, DevOps, cyber operations, and IT leader with experience building, operating, and modernizing high-impact systems across U.S. Department of Defense and large-scale enterprise environments.
Expertise spans infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud modernization, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, malware analysis, platform engineering, low-code workflow automation, and mission-critical operations for national security environments.
$75M
IT portfolio managed
350
engineers and researchers directed
2.2M
enterprise users supported
99.99%
uptime across core services
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Career Profile
Over a decade of organizational and technical leadership in IT, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity, driving high-impact initiatives across global enterprises.
Managed portfolios up to $75M, multi-disciplinary teams of up to 350 personnel, and continuity of mission-critical operations for more than 2.2 million users worldwide.
Technical leader experienced in bridging software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure systems.
Delivered technical innovations with direct mission assurance value across cloud migrations, DevSecOps implementations, adversary hunting, vulnerability research, and infrastructure modernization.
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Education
Park University
B.S. in Computer Science
Expected 2027
Community College of the Air Force
Associate's in Computer Science
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Work Experience
- Managed a $75M IT portfolio overseeing cloud infrastructure optimization and automation for critical global communications across 83 installations.
- Directed GenAI and cloud automation projects, integrated RESTful APIs, and delivered 7 software systems in 24 months.
- Coordinated multi-departmental efforts to integrate advanced solutions and maintain high availability for mission-critical services.
- Leveraged ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini APIs to automate reporting, enhance decision support, and scale internal communications workflows.
- Drove 110 IT professionals across 8 teams supporting client systems for 4,400 users and produced 99.99% uptime of core services across a 6 square mile campus.
- Directed installation-level operations for a 4,000-user, 12K-asset environment, maintaining mission-critical services across a $43M network.
- Maintained 275K miles of copper and fiber cabling, 440 routers and switches, 29 servers, 16 virtual servers, 2,400 workstations, 800 radios, and 4 satellite dishes.
- Migrated 8 on-premises core services to Microsoft Azure, improving scalability and reliability for Air Traffic Controllers covering 200 square miles of civilian airspace.
- Oversaw rollout of a Cisco network automation and Infrastructure as Code solution standardizing 120 switches across 8 network enclaves, reducing misconfiguration risk and improving disaster recovery readiness.
- Accelerated a $1.2M infrastructure modernization effort and upgraded crisis-center technology during emergency management operations following an F-16 crash in the Yellow Sea.
- Served on the unit command team responsible for human capital, organizing, training, and equipping teams.
- Contributed to senior decision-making for IT projects supporting a 3,200-person workforce.
- Ensured mission assurance for a $1.2T global network providing 2.2M users with reliable access to 2 exabytes of data and moving 10-40 petabytes per day.
- Directed manpower, resource allocation, discipline, promotions, conflict resolution, training, organizational strategy, culture, and climate for 150 people.
- Developed and enforced security policies and protocols safeguarding sensitive data across classified networks over critical protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), and DHCP.
- Led a team of 5, developed project requirements, implemented innovation portfolios, served as project action officer, and deployed innovation projects to a 2.2 million employee workforce.
- Deployed a cloud technology based development network for sandboxed systems engineering and certification in a $1.2T network-representative environment.
- Championed innovation for a 3,200-person workforce and deployed low-code/no-code technology to create digital citizens, increasing development participation by 12x.
- Managed software development teams that created 14 network defense and maintenance tools used by 1,600 operators at 7 operations centers, earning a 2021 Senior Manager of the Year award.
- Architected and delivered a low-code/no-code workflow automation platform using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Graph API with role-based approvals, audit trails, OAuth-secured integrations, and LLM-assisted recommendations grounded in federal policy.
- Supported 800 users and oversight of a $4.8M budget through workflow automation, approvals, and policy-grounded recommendations.
- Directed 22 DevOps teams and 350 offensive cyber researchers and software engineers developing secure, high-performance solutions for national security missions.
- Supported sanctioned U.S. Department of Defense cyber operations across Air Force, Navy, and Army mission sets, including battlefield systems, SCADA/OT networks, Linux and Windows platforms, and SOHO devices.
- Implemented Agile/Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices, reducing delivery timelines from 6 months to nearly 2 weeks through code and tool reuse.
- Developed a CI/CD automation framework enabling repeatable validation of 0-day exploits across multiple firmware variations with Python orchestration, HTTP parsing, regression validation, evidence capture, and hardware-integrated power cycling.
- Engineered multi-layered test frameworks across Python, PHP, and C using PyTest, PHPUnit, CUnit, and CTest for unit, integration, regression, end-to-end, boundary, load, stress, fault-injection, security, and fuzz testing.
- Designed GitLab CI/CD pipelines with self-hosted runners on ESXi micro-instances, Python linters, PyTest frameworks, hardware-in-the-loop automation, and Jenkins validation in Platform One AWS Cloud environments.
- Developed advanced exploitation tools for the National Security Agency, contributing to anti-terrorism operations in Iraq and earning a regional Lance P. Sijan award.
- Reverse engineered compiled ELF and PE files with fuzzers to find exploitable vulnerabilities and developed tools to circumvent common detection capabilities including cryptographic, obfuscation, and anti-antivirus techniques.
- Administered Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle environments for 11 Air Force bases over 3 years, managing 35 schemas in a clustered architecture with responsibility for performance tuning, availability, and data integrity.
- Performed static and dynamic malware analysis, basic and advanced reverse engineering of malicious software code, and coordinated with intelligence fusion analysts to determine nation-state sourcing.
- Awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for analyzing malware from the White House and State Department.
- Analyzed binaries at the assembly and bytecode level, reconstructed logic into C, and used IDA Pro, OllyDbg, PE Explorer, and VMware for reverse engineering.
- Developed signature-based and heuristic detection criteria and codified them into YARA rules for host-based antivirus and intelligence fusion.
- Collaborated with U.S. intelligence agencies to fuse malware research with critical intelligence reports and identify adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Founded and operated a technology consulting firm specializing in web application development, cloud infrastructure engineering, and automated API integrations.
- Delivered a Laravel 8 line-of-business Azure cloud platform for stormwater compliance across the Dallas-San Antonio corridor, supporting project lifecycle management, role-based permissions, scheduling, automated document export, search, OneDrive file handling, MSSQL, Guzzle, Flysystem, Laravel Scout, and Spatie Permission.
- Developed a Laravel 7 line-of-business platform for IT service delivery combining billing workflows, client-scoped access controls, search, Dropbox-backed document management, and structured infrastructure records for servers, accounts, credentials, backups, network devices, workstations, and domains.
- Deployed backend API functionality and Vue.js interface components for a staged Python/Django-to-PHP/Laravel migration, salvaging the existing MySQL database and using Apiary for API design and testing.
- Built backend APIs using PHP and Laravel in AWS environments using EC2, RDS, and S3 to support API-driven applications.
- Designed and deployed cloud-based applications using Amazon Web Services including EC2, RDS, Lambda, and S3 to support automation, scalability, and resilient architectures.
- Produced and streamed live technical content via Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook, making complex engineering topics accessible to broader audiences.
- Evaluated and applied emerging AI tools including Grok, Copilot, and Alexa+ to enhance automation, content generation, and communication workflows.
- Engineered and operated a PHP/Python automation platform for English Wikipedia with 6 approved production tasks and 43,054 edits over 7 years.
- Integrated the MediaWiki API, Pywikibot, and Wikimedia Toolforge to automate data collection, transformation, reporting, and large-scale content maintenance.
- Architected and led development of the Unblock Ticket Request System, a Laravel moderation platform for English Wikipedia that processed 61,000+ tickets.
- Designed workflow/state orchestration, integrated MediaWiki APIs, MariaDB, Meta-Wiki OAuth, Bootstrap UI, RBAC, and privacy-aware data handling for scalable human-in-the-loop moderation workflows.
- Built GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines with PHPUnit automated testing, linting, and human-in-the-loop validation gates for controlled deployments to Wikimedia Toolforge.
- Selected and fully sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation to present UTRS at the Wikimedia Conference 2012 in Berlin.
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Professional Development
Technical Courses
- Technical Writer - 2011
- Fundamentals of Instructional System Design - 2011
- Certified Ethical Hacker Course - 2015
- Defense Cyber IT Academy Malware Forensics - 2015
- Vulnerability Research and Exploit Engineering - 2017, Top Graduate
- Adaptive Penetration Testing - 2019
- Korean Language 101 - 2023
Leadership Courses
- Airmen Leadership School - 2005
- Non-Commissioned Officer Academy - 2010, Distinguished Graduate
- Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy - 2017, Etchberger Award
Certifications
- Project Management Professional - July 2026
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - In Progress, Expected August 2026
- ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance - 2017
- CompTIA Security+ - 2015, expired
- Certified Ethical Hacker - 2015, expired
- CompTIA A+ - 2007
Conferences
- Air Education and Training Symposium - 2005 to 2010
- Rocky Mountain Cyber Symposium - 2022, 2024, 2025
- Department of the Air Force Information Technology Conference - 2013, 2022 to 2025
- Alamo ACE Cyber Symposium - 2021
- DEF CON - 2018 to 2020
- Black Hat - 2018 to 2020